Network Threat Hunter

About the role

When you join Verizon you want more out of a career – a place to share your ideas freely, even if they’re daring or different. You’ll learn, grow, and thrive while helping power and empower how people live, work, and play. The V Team is a community that anticipates, leads, and believes that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and celebration we come together, lifting our communities and building trust.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify threats within Verizon’s network and provide actionable intelligence to network and security teams.
• Stay up‑to‑date on emerging global threat activity and trends from state and non‑state actors.
• Lead analysis of network traffic and events, focusing on anomalous patterns missed by automated tools, and present actionable insights to stakeholder organizations.
• Create and evolve network threat‑hunting techniques by analyzing current and past incidents and breaches using internal and external data sources and intelligence.
• Conduct time‑sensitive analysis during cyber investigations, including active network threat hunting and malware analysis.
• Proactively identify potential network threat vectors and vulnerabilities through advanced threat research and analysis of logs, malicious code, packet captures, behavioral analytics, and other artifacts.
• Create hypotheses and predictions of possible network threats and vulnerabilities, and work with partner teams to validate them.
• Cultivate and maintain strong working relationships with Verizon’s network threat‑intelligence partners and convey substantive findings.
• Create and maintain documentation on threat‑hunting findings, processes, and hand‑offs.
• Provide recommendations on tools, capabilities, or datasets that may support network threat‑hunting goals.
• Identify gaps in network logging capabilities and develop strategies to address them.
• Identify and propose automated alerts for new and previously unknown network threats.
• Develop expertise on Verizon’s network threat landscape using internal data, threat trends, and operational metrics, and clearly communicate this landscape to stakeholders.
• Serve as an expert on network threat‑hunting methodology and provide peer reviews and mentoring to other team members.
• Ensure the organization meets established metrics, including administrative, auditory, and KPI targets.

Requirements

We are looking for a threat hunter with strong critical‑thinking and analytical skills, comprehensive knowledge of Verizon’s network and security mechanisms, and a current understanding of the evolving threat landscape. The candidate must be able to derive insights from extensive network data, connect disparate information, think creatively, and generate actionable artifacts for stakeholder teams. Continuous learning, contribution to threat‑hunting methodology evolution, and support for partner stakeholder organizations are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Four or more years of experience designing, testing, or operating networks with switching and routing (including OSI model, protocols, BGP data, and NetFlow).
• Four or more years of experience in cyber‑related fields such as cyber security, IT, SIEM tools, investigations, network security, computer security, intelligence analysis, information assurance, incident response, intrusion detection, malware analysis, information security management, penetration testing, vulnerability management, red team, blue team, or purple team.
• Master’s degree or certifications in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Cyber Security, Systems Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Proven track record in managing complex processes, driving results, and adapting to change.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Software programming and scripting experience.
• Data‑science methodologies applied to network data to enable advanced threat detection.
• Ability to thrive in a high‑intensity, production‑driven, dynamic environment.
• Experience with data analytics, AI, or machine‑learning methodologies.
• Experience with the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis, Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• At least two years of experience with incident response, security operations, malware analysis, or threat hunting.
• At least three years of experience applying data‑science concepts to enable advanced threat detection.
• Working knowledge of tools such as Splunk, Elastic Search, Grafana, and Netscout.
• Even better if you have one or more of the following:
  • Network Security
  • Computer Security
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Information Assurance
  • Incident Response
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Malware Analysis
  • Information Security Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Red Team
  • Blue Team
  • Purple Team

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short‑ and long‑term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, and AD&D insurance.
• Identity theft protection, pet insurance, and group